Blog Posts Tagged with "vendors"

When faced by sometimes rabidly optimistic vendors that suggest putting everything into the cloud, right away, organizations are naturally a little confused when it comes to deciding what applications to move and how to develop an incremental migration strategy...

The objective of this RFI is to learn more about how government can further leverage the key characteristics and advantages of cloud computing to save money and increase IT efficiencies. CSB's are one concept that GSA is exploring and this RFI contains questions specific to cloud brokerages...

Many open source products have add-ons, extensions, plug-ins etc. which make them attractive. While the core application itself is mostly secure, it is these extensions and plug-ins contributed by many diverse developers and organizations that introduce vulnerabilities into the open source product as a whole...

Penetration Testing / Red Teaming requires the use of a lot of tools. I don't mind getting called a "script kiddie" because I can accomplish more and faster when I don't have to code every single task I need to do. This post is to point out companies that make this possible and give a small bit of thanks...

If up and to the right is the desired Magic Quadrant location, how does one get there? For many tech firms, they often are clueless. In this book, Stiennon provides clear direction. For those looking to make the expedition to the land of Gartner, this book is a veritable Berlitz Guide on how to make the journey...

NBVP had around 40 industry collaborators survey close to 800 respondents to ascertain their key issues impacting cloud computing. Security remains the primary inhibitor to adoption with 55% of respondents identifying it as a concern, followed by regulatory compliance at 38% and vendor lock-in at 32%...

Everything in life will fail at some point - it is a smart thing to plan for and architect into your applications or services. Undoubtedly this type of strategy costs more - having multiple providers, more complex software, more data shipping and redundancy isn't cheap - but this is one lesson you must learn...

You cannot “stop attacks”, you can only alter the consequences of the attacks. You can stop attacks from succeeding sometimes, and minimize the impact on your organization, but the attacks will come no matter what. Further, the idea that “attacks” only fall into two categories, zero-day and patchable, is more nonsense...

Although open source software appears fantastic at the outset, they often come with an indirect price to pay, and it takes a lot of time for the organization to realize this. If your organization is hit by the ‘using open source to reduce costs’ wave, here are a few points you to look at before taking the leap...

First off, there must be a slide talking about The Problem We All Face and that it’s a scary, scary world out there, otherwise I would forget why we’re all here. Next, there must be a slide that includes icons of people, the cloudernet, and either monitors or CPUs. Extra points for creatively drawn bad guys...

Myths have existed throughout history in different cultures and times. The information security industry isn’t excluded from having its own share of myths. So, I got in touch with some European security professionals to share their views on some of the biggest security myths that need busting...

One cloud does not fit all. Your cloud should be customized to fit your business. I believe that if you're going to have a cloud strategy you need to have a pragmatic approach which has you doing your due diligence, proper risk analysis, and understanding your cloud vendor...

Greendot and other Reloadable debit cards are not a safe means of conducting anonymous financial transfer. The financial networks created by these cards are very prone to network analysis. There is an unacceptable amount of cross network contamination for vendors...

Some people think that if you try to profit on your discovery, then no matter what your intentions are, the discovery could be used for non ethical goals. They think that it does not matter if it is a good guy or a bad guy who gets the information. They think that both parties have the potential for abuse...

People who are in the computer security business are using too many scare tactics. Instead of informing the customer properly they are trying to scare them into using the company’s products. That is never a good thing and it is the reason why we have so much of a backlash going on now...

The general consensus regarding whether booth babes are appropriate is a resounding NO, yet vendors still find it necessary to use this strategy. Even amidst complaints by conference attendees & public mocking on social media sites, vendors stick to their marketing guns and bust out the busty femaninas...